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y suitable forms `for saidjpurpose.

SAMUEL N. MAXAM, E SHELBURNE FALLS; MASSACHUSETTS.

To aZZ whom may concern:

Be it known thatl,` SAMUEL N. MAXAM,

n `of Shelburne Falls,`in the county of Franklin and State `ofMassachusetts, have invented` a new and Improved Mode of` Operating theKnives of `fAutomatic Apple- `Parers,` which I denominate an improvementin Paring-Machines, and I do hereby declare that the following isa fulland exact. description thereof, reference being had to the`accompanyingdrawings and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

l` The nature `of my invention consists. in guiding4 and controlling theknives of paring machines over and upon the surface of the apple to bepared,` by means of an inclined plane scroll afiixed to the drivingwheel of y such machine, in connection with suitable l loop,gears and`slidebar`,.as will more fully `appear from the `following description.

A, represents the driving wheel fixed upon .i "its axle B `havingsuitablebearings `in the .i standards of the `frame of the" machina-and.having also an internalgearupon and withi `in its exterior rim, whichgear..1 communi lCates motion to theiappleby means of a pinion, shaftandfork constructedgin any Upon and .attached to the arms ofsaidwwheel A,is

from the plane of the: arms ofsaid wheel `A, near the shaft B andextending. around formed the inclined plane "scrollC, arising said shaftin scroll` form at "constantly in;

creasing distances ffromsaid shaft B. l This `scroll also increases "3constantly, but` not necessarily in uniform` degrees, iny width from thesaid plane `oftheiarms until "sufficient` width is gained to`communicate sufIicientmotion to the slide bar D with the parts connectedtherewith.

same, is placed the sliolebar D the end i l thereof appropriatelyfittingupon the edge aforesaid and extending therefrom between theprongs `of the guidepost K, is hinged bya screw pin to the segment` gearE in such manner as to communicate motion to i `the same. This segmentgear E is hinged 1 "in like manner upon the standard I, and by jversemotionto theloop F which loop F is' fixed upon the shaft G which, havingproper the `connecting gearing, communicates a re- "bearings inthestandards I-I-i-I, is revolved ArEntr onnion.'

Against the `edge of .the scroll C and pressing against the l MAci-INEFonl APPLES.

Specification afnemers Patent No. 12,689, .dated April 1o, 1855.

by the said loop F and its connect-ing gear within said bearings.

wThe curved end J, of the Shaft G is `slotted to receive the handle ofthe knife `moving laterally with a swinging mo- .tion during therevolution of the scroll,

there is therebycommunicated to the segment gear E and consequently tothe loop F, the semicircular movement necessary to convey the knife overthe surface of the apple,

from one pole to the opposite, while the said apple .is revolved, bymeansl of the fork, shaft and pinion above described, at such greatervelocity than that of the driving wheel A as may enable the knife mostefficiently to perform the paring of said apple. When the operation'upon each'apple placed upon the fork is completed, and by therevolutio'n of the scroll C as aforesaid, the end A of the slide bar D,is released from the scroll `.by the passage, of the wide end of thesamev plast the saidslide bar D.,`the spring L then operates byitstension to draw the slide bar with the Segment gear and loop connectedtherewith `back to their original positions,

and thereby returning the knife, attached `to `the handlepassingthro-ugh the loop F` as aforesaid, from its position on the completionof theprocess of paring the apple, to that preparatory to a repetitionofthe process, the slide bar D being at the same time vthereby carriedinto 4position to repeat its action upon the edge of the Scroll C asaforesaid. i

I do not confine myself to the precise fo-rm and exact arrangement ofthe several parts hereinbefore described, as I may choose to l vary thesame while I attain the same results by means Substantially the same.Nor e do I claiinany particular form or construction of the knife to beused upon the machanioal equivalents combined, arranged and operatingsubstantially in the manner 10 and for the purposes herein set forth.

SAMUEL N. MAXAM.

Witnesses:

THos. B. MONTAGUE, GUY H. HUBBARD.

